On 2010-05-06, Keith <ke...@scott-land.net> wrote: > Hi, I am having trouble increasing the openfile limit in a default > install of OpenBSD 4.6 x64 from the default setting of 128 to say 5000. > I want to run Pound (reverse http proxy) stably without it stopping at > random times (Always seems to be the weekend) and to do that I need to > crank up the openfile limit. I think Pound runs with the following > account settings.... Type=deamon, user = _pound , group= _pound
If you start it from a shell, it uses the class for the account you've logged in as. If you start it from /etc/rc.local, unless you do something with su or sudo, it uses the class daemon. So you need to adjust openfiles-cur for the class of the account you're starting it from. If starting it from a shell, make sure you use a new login shell after adjusting this. > I know that if I do a ulimit -n 10000 the limit get's set at maximum of > 7030. I don't know if doing this change effects other users and I am > pretty sure it doesn't survive a reboot. This limit is from kern.maxfiles sysctl. Either adjust it with sysctl(8) or edit sysctl.conf and reboot to change this. > I've done "sysctl kern.maxfiles=3000" for example but if I do a ulimit This is lowering things from the default (7030), at least on i386 and amd64.
